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Light
I spent a good bit of time wrapping lights around this little decor on my kitchen desk. It may not look all that fabulous, and it may appear as if I have wasted my time here. After yesterday, I just had to get this done. Yesterday, I went with my husband and some of the…
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Back To School
Homeschool prep and planning have been my summers for over 25 years. I have graduated six students, and only two are left this year. For the first time in a couple of years, I decided to declutter school cabinets. These many years of homeschooling equate to a lot of stuff. A lot of books, a…
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My Mom
Today would have been my Mom’s 91st birthday. She died in 2019 at 85 after an extended illness. That’s usually how we write it up — “an extended illness.” It took us all together as a family to care for her and I lost my Mama a long time before she died. She had a…
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I HAVE NOTHING LEFT
Recently, one of my kids was talking about growing up and telling funny stories, and then the kid said this, “I can remember you saying, ‘I am just so drained! I have nothing left!’” I thought about that conversation for several days. It was rather convicting for me. Truth be told, some of those early…
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I Do Teach
Some people over the years have asked me if I actually teach. Yes, in our homeschool I actually teach this stuff. Honestly, I don’t teach everything all the time. Some of my kids have taken online courses, or video courses from time to time, but yes, school happens here. I think this is a funny…
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Mom Ethos
I keep a paper folded up in my planner. Every so often I run across it and read it. It is called the SEAL Ethos and I printed it straight off the Naval Special Warfare Command Website (https://www.nsw.navy.mil/NSW/SEAL-Ethos/). Every time I read through it, I am mightily inspired. It challenges me to keep in the…
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Christmas Has Been here
“You wouldn’t know Christmas had been here.” At first, that sounded great. I had picked the Saturday right after Christmas to take down Christmas. That was a little early, but it would mean that New Year’s Day would be free and it meant that when we started up our homeschool again, we wouldn’t have to…
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Pondering…
The Bible tells us to “Ponder the path of thy feet…” and to “Return to thine own house and shew how great things God hath done unto thee. …”. He also tells us to “Cast not away therefore your confidence…” So how do I do these things? Ponder where life has taken me and is…